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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 2 records found where LC Subject Heading is Lyon, James Edward, b. 1846
	Hand-book of Durham, North Carolina : a brief and accurate description of a prosperous and growing southern manufacturing town This pocket-sized handbook documents the people, businesses, social conditions, and government of Durham, North Carolina, and compares Durham's industrial and social advantages to other cities of the same size. It includes statistical records and information about Durham's government, health, real estate, taxes, buildings, streets, waterworks, fire departments, electric lights and gas, telephones, hotels, hospitals, markets, schools and colleges, churches, lodges, and social clubs. Included are lithographs of Mangum Street and Main Street and depictions of prominent buildings, such as: Bennett Place; Durham County Court House; the Fire House; Hotel Carolina; City Hospital; Durham Graded School; Trinity College's Main Building; Trinity Methodist Church; Main Street Methodist Church; the Presbyterian Church; the First and Second Baptist Church; bank buildings; the factory of the Blackwell Durham Tobacco Co.; Duke Tobacco Factory; and textile factories. Portraits include Isaac N. Link, ma...
	Ordinances and resolutions for the government of the town of Durham, 1873 This 1873 pamphlet records laws for Durham's citizens and visitors. Includes prohibitions on cockfighting, littering, indecent exposure, and firing guns within town limits. Julian S. Carr held the post of mayor of Durham. Edward James Parrish, J. E. Lyon, J. F. Freeland, W. Mangum and James S. Lockhart served on the Durham Board of Commissioners.

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